Here's a link to an alternet article that discusses, among other things, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story that delves into the finances of the Cain campaign - focusing on the activities of Cain's campaign manager, one Mark Block.

A few excerpts:

Hours before Politico burst forth with its explosive accusations [about the sexual harassment], the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel laid out a case that suggests significant illegal campaign activity on Cain's behalf by a nonprofit organization, Prosperity USA (also known as America's Prosperity Network), controlled by Block and linked to David Koch's Americans for Prosperity. As AlterNet has reported, Block, the former director of AFP's Wisconsin chapter, has long been known for playing dirty in politics.

Prosperity USA, described as a 501(c)(3) in its incorporation documents (and which now seems to be defunct), appears to have been footing the bill for Cain campaign expenses, including a highly unusual payment of $100,000 to the right-wing Congress of Racial Equality in advance of a major speech by Cain. Daniel Bice, who writes the Journal Sentinel's No Quarter blog [Anne note: not the same NQ blog we all remember], reports that the payment to CRE appears to have been disbursed from $150,000 in loans raised from unnamed donors. While Bice says that Cain was apparently not paid for that appearance, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer this month uncovered information suggesting that Cain's speaking fees are not directly reported as such on his disclosure forms to the Federal Elections Commission, but are shielded from public view as transactions that take place between his private company and the speaker's bureau representing him.

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Until he signed on as Herman Cain's campaign manager in December, Block ran the Wisconsin state chapter of Americans for Prosperity. In addition to helping to send a handful of Koch-backed lawmakers to Washington, Block also helped elect Scott Walker to the governor's mansion along with a cadre of right-wingers to the state legislature, where they wasted no time in launching an assault against Wisconsin's public employees and their unions. And it was Block who recruited Herman Cain to run for president.

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As a political operative, Block is known to be both hardworking and ruthless, often ignoring the law. As AlterNet reported, Block's flouting of Wisconsin campaign law got him banned from participating in political campaigns there for three years. He also paid a $15,000 fine for the illegal use of an outside group in the campaign he managed for a judicial candidate. Practically the minute the ban was up, Block signed on to lead Americans for Prosperity's Wisconsin chapter, and to help build the national organization.

In 2010, the liberal advocacy organization, One Wisconsin Now, uncovered Block's role in a vote-caging scheme apparently designed to suppress the votes of college students and African Americans in Milwaukee. Block denied the accusation until the leader of a Tea Party group challenged him.

According to the experts Bice quoted in his investigative report on Prosperity USA, Block once again appears to have played fast and loose with the rules.

It all makes sense now: Cain is the Koch brothers' stalking horse, and if nothing else, and assuming the corporate media decide campaign finance might be a big issue to report on, people are going to learn a lot more about the Koch family than they ever knew.

I don't see how Cain survives this - thank God; getting rid of Mark Block won't help, either.

Because in the event it is one of the loons, your job becomes a lot easier.

I saw how effective internal Dems are pushing one candidate over another when things get rough.  You don't have to get that rough in caucus states though with Dems because Dems spend their whole lives trying to figure out how to be nice people in every situation :)  It is a challenge they hope to all eventually max out before they die.

As well as the crinkling of paper and the smell of fresh ink being ingrained in me as well...as long as they print them, I'm gonna buy them.  

Rolling Stone too...new issue showed up last night.  Best Christmas present I get every year is my Rolling Stone subscription.